9 May
2007
9 May
'07
12:08 a.m.
Oh don't worry. I won't take it the wrong way. I'll be the first to tell
you that the documentation for SER is pretty close to unusable. But
unfortunately, that's the way most open source projects are. You have
all these coding geniuses building them, and all these systems geniuses
testing them... and not a single one of them remembers how to convey
information to the rest of us. ;)
What the project lacks is a full-time technical writer -- someone whose
job it is is to corner the developers and ask them what all of this
stuff means (in intricate detail) and not let them go until they've
fully explained all of it. Then he/she can take that information and
translate it into something human beings can understand.
This is one reason why good technical writers are expensive, and the
primary reason that most companies and projects 'make do' with whatever
they can find.
If you know any good technical writers who might be willing to fly off
to Europe and ply some of the SER team with beer enough to get them
talking, we could most certainly use it. I'll pay for the beer. ;)
N.
lists(a)infoway.net wrote:
Excellent news. Thanks for the feedback. Overall, and
please don't take this negatively, I think documentation for SER is difficult for
beginners, so if we have to go through the learning curve anyway, we might as well do it
in the newer version.
Thanks again
On Tue, May 8, 2007 5:04 pm, SIP <sip(a)arcdiv.com> said:
> For all intents and purposes, SER 2.0 (the new one) is ready for use.
> The only thing it's really waiting on to be 'stable' is some better
> documentation. However, it's best, if you're just getting started, to
> deploy with the new version and maybe muddle your way through a bit
> until documentation is complete.
>
> N.
>
>
> lists(a)infoway.net wrote:
>
>> We are planning on deploying a couple of SER servers and integrate them with
>> either SEMS or Asterisk for voicemail. However, we are a bit confused as to
which
>> version of SER to go with? From what we can tell, the latest stable version is
>> 0.9.6. However, we know of the new 0.10.X version. Reading up on the site, there
>> is some documentation that explains a little bit of the differences and/or
>> migration recommendations/steps.
>>
>> So, in an effort to keep life as simple as possible, which version should we
work
>> with? We are afraid that if we go through a learning cycle with 0.9.6 we're
going
>> to "suffer" when migrating to the new version, either because of the
learning
>> curve or because of a potential painful migration process.
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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